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Show MARTI FAMILY WILL NOT ANSWER GRAND JURY QUESTIONS An unexpected feature of the prand Jury investigations was disclosed this morning when Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Martin and their daughter, Mrs, Nellie Nel-lie Cook, refused to answer questions put to them by the jurymen and the state's attorneys. They appeared before be-fore the jury in answered to subpoenas sub-poenas but refused to answer questions ques-tions regarding blackmailing affairs or at all, claiming they had been advised ad-vised by their attorney not to answer. an-swer. The grand Jury immediately reported report-ed the affair to Judge N'athan J Harris Har-ris Judge James A. Howell being at Brlgham City, and the court IsBued an attachment for the witnesses, returnable return-able to the court this afternoon at 1:30, to show cause why they should not be compelled to answer the questions ques-tions that may be put to them. The attachment was placed In the hands of Sheriff De Vine for service. The three witnesses were in the court room when the report of the grand jury was read, but they did not offer voluntary service of the writ of attachment, nor did they volunteer any information respecting their attitude. atti-tude. Early In the morning, as Mr Martin and his wife, leaning upon his arm, and accompanied ny Mrs. rook-entered rook-entered the county clerk's private office of-fice to await the action oi the grand jury, Mr Martin stated that they had been advised by their attorney to refuse to answer any questions that might be asked them by the jury and he decided to obey counsel. He stated stat-ed that he would not answer questions unless forced to by the court. It appears that the grand Jury could not hold the witnesses In contempt for their refusal to testify and the matter was referred to the courr, which has the power to punish witnesses wit-nesses for contempt. Attorneys say there is a rule of law which privileges witnesses to refuse to testify on a subject that might in criminate them and that necessarily they do not need to exprain specifically specifical-ly in what way they would be Incriminated. Incrim-inated. Just how this rule will apply in grand Jury matters is yet to be determined deter-mined by the court. At the reconvening of the court this afternoon at 2 o'clock. It was announced that Soren X Christensen of Rait Lake, attorney for the Martins, had boon delayed and could not reach Ogden until a later hour, whereupon the court continued the hearing until the attorney could appear. oo |